juju register does not always log new user into controller/model

[James Page]

Juju: 3.2/beta
Ubuntu: 22.04
Provider: manual

During testing for OpenStack Sunbeam we've sporadically seen and issue that when a juju register command is issued to setup a new user/machine with access to the controller and model for deploying units, it sometimes gets logged in, and sometimes the controller immediately prompts for the password that has just been set:

Successful run:

--
Enter a new password:
Confirm password:
Enter a name for this controller [replace sunbeam-controller]: sunbeam-controller
Initial password successfully set for sunbeam01.

Welcome, sunbeam01. You are now logged into "sunbeam-controller".

Current model set to "admin/controller".
--

Failed run:

--
Enter a new password:
Confirm password:
Enter a name for this controller [sunbeam-controller]: sunbeam-controller
Initial password successfully set for solqa-lab1-server-48.nosilo.lab1.solutionsqa.
please enter password for solqa-lab1-server-48.nosilo.lab1.solutionsqa on sunbeam-controller:
--

what should the behaviour be?

[James Page (james-page)]

sunbeam bug 2019536

[Marian Gasparovic (marosg)]

Here is controller crashdump, I found solqa-lab1-server-48.nosilo.lab1.solutionsqa only in audit log

solqa-lab1-server-40.nosilo.lab1.solutionsqa is the controller

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I do believe that the result of doing "juju register" and supplying your
new password should leave you connected with a valid macaroon for the next
24hrs, rather than prompting you to login again. I wonder if there is a
background client thread (like Ping or something else), that gets started
and somehow triggers a connection request while the primary auth dance is
being done.

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 9:32 AM James Page <email address hidden>
wrote:

> ** Tags added: sunbeam
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
> Canonical Juju.
> Matching subscriptions: juju bugs
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2020360
>
> Title:
> juju register does not always log new user into controller/model
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/2020360/+subscriptions
>
>

[Joseph Phillips (manadart)]

Is success:

"Enter a name for this controller [replace sunbeam-controller]: sunbeam-controller"

versus failure:

"Enter a name for this controller [sunbeam-controller]: sunbeam-controller"

incidental, or is consistent regarding the "replace" flag?